Cheating : gaining advantage in videogames / / Mia Consalvo

• Autore: Consalvo Mia <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 794.8
• Soggetto topico: Cheating at video games; Video games industry - Corrupt practices; Video games - Moral and ethical aspects
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction TO CHEAT OR NOT TO CHEAT: IS THAT EVEN THE QUESTION? -- Part I A Cultural History of Cheating in Games -- 1 CREATING THE MARKET: EASTER EGGS AND SECRET AGENTS -- 2 GUIDANCE GOES INDEPENDENT: THE RISE OF STRATEGY GUIDE PUBLISHERS -- 3 GENIES, SHARKS, AND CHIPS: THE TECHNOLOGICAL SIDE TO CHEATING -- Part II Game Players -- 4 GAINING ADVANTAGE: HOW VIDEOGAME PLAYERS DEFINE AND NEGOTIATE CHEATING -- 5 THE CHEATERS -- 6 BUSTING PUNKS AND POLICING PLAYERS: THE ANTICHEATING INDUSTRY -- 7 A MAGE'S CHRONICLE: CHEATING AND LIFE IN VANA'DIEL -- Part III Capital and Game Ethics -- 8 CAPITALIZING ON PARATEXTS: GAMEPLAY, ETHICS, AND EVERYDAY LIFE -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups); examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating; describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating; and studies online cheating in context in an online ethnography of Final Fantasy XI."--Jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cheating
• ISBN: 1-282-09880-2; 9786612098802; 0-262-27074-9; 1-4294-7966-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828201503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II